If you've ever fancied yourself as a poet but don't quite have the lyrical and rhythmic skills one might require, Google's Verse by Verse tool can help you to craft the most delectable verse. The ...

Poetry suddenly seems more relevant since Sept. 11. Poems by Auden and Yeats and Marianne Moore -- particularly Auden's "September 1, 1939," written after the Nazi invasion of Poland and containing ...

Poetry and community go hand-in-hand. Sometimes lacking a defined form but always full of heart, they create a space for discussing, relating, exploring, expressing, healing. This year's Free Verse ...

A couple of months back I was sitting in an East Village dive bar enjoying, oh, I don’t know, my third or fourth whiskey (it was Tuesday, after all), when I noticed a very attractive girl next to me ...

For Robert Pinsky, the pleasure in poetry comes from the music of the language, and not from the meaning of the words. So he put together an anthology of 80 poems that are models by master poets-- ...

Poetry is more than an art form. It is a lineage of healing. Our communities have long used rhythm, story, and verse to transform pain into wisdom. In every language and every tradition, we have ...

Lily Velazquez, a freshman from the Crown Point/St. John area, recites a poem to attendees at Valparaiso University’s Poetry Slam on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in the Harre Union. The event was one of ...